The Baptism of the Lord, Jan. 13, 2013
(Notes from sermon) We live in a nation of laws, but the law is not supreme. All laws must reflect God, or it is not a legitimate law. All law begins with God.
The laws of the universe and the moral laws reflect the love of God and reflect his being. The Muslims believe in a God who is all will – He can decide that what was evil yesterday is good, and what was good is now evil.
But for we Catholics, God’s being and goodness and love is supreme – not his will. God’s will, what he decrees for the universe – follows his nature. … Those laws are so like God, those laws cannot change.
In modern America, once they make something legal, some people think it’s OK. But then they accept as moral and normal whatever the government says is moral. Even if it’s considered evil and immoral ever since the human race began. … If the government says killing unborn babies, or homosexual marriage is OK, they say it’s OK. Thus we have made the government into a false God.
Our Catholic religion runs deep or doesn’t run at all.